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REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Liridona Veliu (Dublin City University), "#Balkanization: A Critical Study of Otherness through Twitter"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Location
101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Date
Dec 3, 2019   12:00 pm  
Contact
Stephanie Porter
E-Mail
chung88@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Ms. Veliu examines "balkanization" as a long-standing discourse of identity construction, otherness and stereotyping through Twitter. Although deriving from the Balkans and attached to the Balkan Peninsula, the "balkanization" discourse has gained a life of its own. The speaker challenges its current manifestations shaped by the era of social media and identifies and connects its meanings with deeper processes of historical events. This lecture denaturalizes ‘balkanization’ as a constructed source of knowledge, approaching the topic embedded in genealogy and deconstructivism, and applies critical discourse analysis as a method of research.

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